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Kenley market report CR8 5, Purley
The standing CR8 5 (Kenley) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 4,496 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in CR8 5 (Purley) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in CR8 5 (Purley) sold for £516,500 in 2026, the median of 44 registered sales, up 20% on five years earlier. The mean was £562,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,050 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 4,496 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like CR8 5 is a single group of streets within CR8 (Purley), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where CR8 5 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
The going rate for a home in CR8 5
Take the 44 registered 2026 sales in CR8 5 and the middle price, the median, is £516,500. The mean lands at £562,600, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in CR8 5
The last five years of sales put CR8 5 at roughly £5,050 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving CR8 5 81% above the national figure.
CR8 5's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £516,500 | £516,500 | 44 |
| 2025 | £479,500 | £490,966 | 124 |
| 2024 | £528,500 | £561,904 | 124 |
| 2023 | £498,000 | £547,180 | 114 |
| 2022 | £509,000 | £596,861 | 152 |
| 2021 | £430,000 | £544,435 | 197 |
| 2020 | £444,500 | £576,748 | 112 |
| 2019 | £397,500 | £521,027 | 100 |
| 2018 | £435,000 | £579,863 | 125 |
| 2017 | £438,800 | £598,479 | 114 |
| 2016 | £404,200 | £565,480 | 134 |
| 2015 | £367,500 | £519,278 | 158 |
| 2014 | £345,500 | £490,152 | 146 |
| 2013 | £295,000 | £424,476 | 127 |
| 2012 | £278,000 | £409,181 | 106 |
| 2011 | £308,800 | £466,169 | 90 |
| 2010 | £295,000 | £462,636 | 95 |
| 2009 | £265,000 | £425,990 | 105 |
| 2008 | £317,900 | £521,105 | 79 |
| 2007 | £313,500 | £531,783 | 221 |
| 2006 | £314,500 | £545,932 | 260 |
| 2005 | £250,000 | £444,899 | 163 |
| 2004 | £235,000 | £426,806 | 172 |
| 2003 | £206,500 | £380,423 | 152 |
| 2002 | £174,000 | £327,379 | 192 |
| 2001 | £141,000 | £271,065 | 171 |
| 2000 | £150,000 | £294,375 | 125 |
| 1999 | £125,800 | £250,713 | 192 |
| 1998 | £113,500 | £229,108 | 159 |
| 1997 | £100,000 | £205,080 | 179 |
| 1996 | £80,200 | £169,138 | 166 |
| 1995 | £93,500 | £203,255 | 98 |
In cash terms the typical CR8 5 home went from £93,500 in 1995 to £516,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 154%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2017. The market now sits about 14% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CR8 5 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2006 (+25.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−16.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What CR8 5 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +7.7% | +5.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.7% | −1.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.5% | −0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
How many homes change hands in CR8 5
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
CR8 5 recorded 44 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 182 sales a year before the financial crisis and 112 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What kind of market CR8 5 is
Only 44 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CR8 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
What homes rent for around CR8 5
CR8 5 falls under Croydon, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,572 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,256 a month here against £2,654 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Croydon
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £516,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,572 a month (£18,864 a year) works out at a 3.7% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
What people ask about CR8 5 (Kenley)
Is CR8 5 (Kenley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CR8 5 (Kenley)?
Are property prices falling in CR8 5 (Kenley)?
What happens to CR8 5 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 20% over five years in cash but down 5% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in CR8 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 150 homes on the market right now, from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CR8 district, not just CR8 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 20% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every CR8 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Moving up a bedroom in CR: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the CR area. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £499,999 | £675,000 (+35%) | £885,000 (+31%) | £1,150,000 (+30%) |
| Semi-detached | £365,000 | £435,000 (+19%) | £533,000 (+23%) | £650,000 (+22%) | £775,000 (+19%) |
| Terraced | £350,000 | £405,000 (+16%) | £460,000 (+14%) | £550,000 (+20%) | £690,000 (+25%) |
| Flat | £242,000 | £310,000 (+28%) | £405,000 (+31%) | £454,000 (+12%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the CR area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, CR area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in CR8
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are CR8's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CR8 1 | £646,200 | 24 |
| CR8 2 | £428,000 | 54 |
| CR8 3 | £817,500 | 12 |
| CR8 4 | £440,000 | 17 |
Zoom out to the full CR8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CR8 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in CR8 5? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in CR8 5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CR8 5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CR8 5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim CR8 5.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CR8 5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual CR8 5 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.